Sunday night, laughing at the telly, kids lolling all over me, fiancee´on the other sofa sipping at a glass of wine, all is well with the world. Tweet Tweet! Why did I have to look? What is it about Twitter that makes those surreptitious glances oh so tempting. What do you mean I’ve got a challenge? … Continue reading 7x7x7x7…Let’s Play!

There are times when I wish there was such a thing as a publishing confessor. Someone and somewhere I could visit, to rest my weary eyes as I cast them downwards in shame and ask for literary absolution. It would save me the trouble of having to wrestle with my conscience the whole time. A … Continue reading A Cure For Writer’s Twitch…

So why haven’t I posted for a while? Because I’ve been writing. And learning. Avidly. Steeply. And one of the things I’ve learned is that it’s too easy to get distracted from writing by…erm, writing (or blogging or Tweeting or working) and life and the internet and everything else that isn’t writing what you should … Continue reading To blog or not to blog…

Determined to write a publishable novel, my game plan was set:- 1. Write great thriller, heart and soul job, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite 2. Set up blog giving occasional insight into the roller coaster ride that is writing and the publishing process, which is almost certain to end in disaster/no agent/no publisher based on statistics alone … Continue reading Setting oneself up for a fall…